Thank you friends, for petitioning the Authority in Heaven and appealing to the rulers of this age regarding the attack that had been planned against tribal Christians in Chhattisgarh for March 1. Your prayers have been heard, and the government has asked the police to maintain peace.
These days, most incidents of persecution are related to “Conversion.” Many Hindus oppressed by demons, sickness, and caste are turning to Christ for deliverance, healing, and salvation. However, the three Chhattisgarh villages were not threatened because of conversions. The attack was planned because some tribal background Christians eat meat and earn their livelihood through animal skins and bones.
The BJP—the Hindu party—rules the State as well as the Center. Why couldn’t the Hindus pressurize the government to enforce the law? Why would a “religious” community mobilize a mob of 5,000 devotees to become a militia and massacre Christians? Is it because 2024 Parliamentary elections have convinced everyone that the Constitution of India cannot be replaced by a religious Constitution of Bharat, democratically? Militias will be necessary to organize a constitutional coup?
the real conflict is not about the cow; it is between two visions: INDIA and BHARAT. . . Gandhi Vs. Godse
Mr. Arun Shourie, a crusader against corruption and a champion of Hinduism, explained an aspect of the big picture to the BBC journalist Jugal Purohit. He said, “There is an urgent need to save Hinduism from Hindutva.” The two of them were reviewing Shourie’s controversial book, The New Icon: Savarkar and the Facts (Penguin Viking, January 2025). (https://youtu.be/DxkhsIuZZc0?si=nyKE-RJwZYC6GgL8
Purohit asked, “Why are you so concerned about this matter?
Shourie explained, “I dread the future because of what has been done to the nation’s institutions.” The institutions that were created as checks on power have been turned into instruments of acquiring and abusing power. “What values are we teaching the next generation” —to deceive, cheat and oppress?
Desperate to save sanity, Shourie says that a devout Hindu may see the cow as mother because he drinks her milk, but “does he drink his mother’s urine or eat her excreta?” If not, why do Hindus allow the bigots to define and disgrace Hinduism? Shourie does not go on to discuss the crux of this in-house conflict within Hinduism.
On January 8, 2025, during the Hindu Religious Parliament in Prayagraj, Swami Avimukteshwarand asked for 1,000 devout Hindus to come out and “slay those who slay our mother cow. Do not ask for the death penalty of cow slayers. Kill them and ask for the death penalty for yourselves. Do not wait for the law to act.” The Swami is the Shankaracharya (Bishop) of Jyotirmath in Uttarakhand. The threat against the three Christian villages was a response to this call.
What’s going on? Here is a hint: the same Shankaracharya has alleged that 222 kg of gold is missing from the most sacred temple in Kedarnath. That allegation implies that the BJP-appointed Board that controls Hindu temples is, at best, incompetent; devotees’ donations are not safe in the hands of political appointees. The saints must control the sacred wealth. Then politicians will prostrate before sages to get the temple funds for elections.
The saints are upset because Hindu politicians love the colonial-era policy of government control over temple mismanagement. This policy began in 1817 when the East India Company sought to correct financial corruption in temples through the Madras Regulation Act. The State Religious and Charitable Endowments Act of 1925 strengthened the government’s authority over the temples. Back then, few Hindus objected because everyone trusted Civil Servants. That is no longer the case. Nehru’s socialist Humanism demolished the morality that the evangelical movement had injected into the civil services, police, and jurisprudence.
Disgusted with the corruption of the Congress era, the voters handed the civil services to the BJP… The outcome is frightening ‘saintly atheists’ such as Arun Shourie.
Watch my video discussion on Hinduism’s attack on Hindutva: https://youtube.com/live/FwnzPD4mfBo
Vishal Mangalwadi
Author of The Bible and the Making of Modern India